Evenflo Top of Stair Plus Gate

by Evenflo

Product Features

• Top of stair wooden gate
• 32" tall
• Expands from 30" to 48" wide
• Hardware mounted
• Removable swing control

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3 x 27.5 x 32.6 inches ; 18.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B002W5RT9Q
• UPC: 032884165056
• Item model number: 10513
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,382 in Baby (See Top 100 in Baby)
  • #77 in Baby > Safety > Gates & Doorways
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (74 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Evenflo top of stair plus wood gate is an easy to install hardware mounted gate. The gate swings open in either direction for eay pass thru, but also includes a swing control to prevent the gate from swinging over stairs when placed at the top of stairs. The top of stair plus wood gate is 32" tall and expands from 30" to 48" wide.

Product Description

The safety of your baby is one of your top priorities. When it comes to protection from accidental tumbles, you can put your mind at ease with Evenflo's new Top-of-Stair Gate. The new Evenflo Top-of-Stair Plus Gate is made taller and wider for more protection! Its four-point hardware mount combined with swing control provides one of the most secure top-of-stair mountings. The gate will swing right, left, or 180-degrees depending on how you set it. Great for pets, too!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

106 of 106 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clarification on the recall of this excellent product, September 27, 2010

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Robert S. Tobias (Arlington, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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Enough has already been said about the quality of *this* gate. I'm submitting this review to clarify that the recall mentioned by some reviewers was for the older Evenflo models 10502 and 10512 Top-of-Stair Plus Wood Gates. This product, model 10513, replaces the 10512 and is also what Evenly was providing as a replacement for the faulty units.

OK, I'll say a little bit about the gate too. Installation was a snap. You get a template, a strip of paper you tape to one side with marks that say where to drill. You use that to mount the gate to one side. The way the thing is designed, once one side is up you use the gate itself to line up where the brackets on the other side should go. The whole thing takes maybe 10 minutes.

Opening and closing is done with one hand by squeezing the gate latch, sliding the gate sideways a few inches until it clears the brackets, and then swinging it out of the way.

If you're buying one of these, the only suggestion I might have is to mount the lower hinge side bracket a bit off center. The goal would be to have the gate angled down, just a hair, in the direction you want it to swing open so that when it is unlatched it will stay fully open and out of the way. That's what I did while installing it and it seems to work quite well. Specifically, looking at the side with the hinge brackets, I wanted the gate to swing open to the left so I mounted the lower bracket 3/16" to the right of center. The result is that when the gate swings open it is also swinging slightly downward and that's what keeps it open.

BTW, I feel that honest, effective reviews can take the place of first-hand experiences that are lacking in online shopping. I've always appreciated the help I've received from other reviewers and work hard to return the favor as best as I can. I hope you found this review helpful and if there was anything you thought was lacking or unclear leave a comment and I'll do what I can to fix it.

60 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Substantial Gate For A Low Cost, January 25, 2010

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C. H. Miller "CHMiller" (Boston, MA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Evenflo Top of Stair Plus Gate (Baby Product)

We've had this gate in use at home for a year. So why write a review now? Because we just replaced the gate.

My husband fell down the stairs this weekend. Thankfully he wasn't injured more than just a couple bruises. He did however break the closed baby gate at the bottom of the stairs when he fell against it. The gate didn't disengage, but a couple of the wooden slats on it were broken off the bottom railing.

Think about that folks; it took the weight of an adult man falling against the gate to cause it to break.

My toddler has stood on the bottom rail of the gate and shaken it numerous times in the past year. Never once has said toddler managed to open the gate or do damage to it.

Now don't you want something that sturdy in your home?

Best of all when the gate was broken this weekend a quick call to Babies-R-Us confirmed that they had a replacement in store. An hour later I'd driven to the store, purchased the gate, and installed the replacement into the existing undamaged wall bracket hardware. The second gate fit into the wall hardware exactly the same as the original gate had. I didn't need to fiddle or adjust any tension settings the way I have with other gates in the past.

For my money, this gate is one of the best on the market. Reliable every time and a great price.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really Good Gate, March 1, 2010

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W. Wathern (Illinois) - See all my reviews
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I have to say that I do feel the gate isn't as sturdy as metal but with a wood gate you are going to have some give and flexibilty.(I bought this to replace a metal pressure mount that my son shook til it fell on him) But once installed it is extremely stable and definitely not going to be ripped out of the wall. My son and the boy I watch both 16 months shake it and I have good faith in it. I have it at the bottom of the stairs but if I needed to I would put it at the top.

As for putting it up I chose to make a trip to the hardware store as opposed to buying a kit, which I would've needed two of since it is installed into drywall on one side and against a bannister on the other. I bought a 2x3 stud board, 2 toggler bolts(metal anchors that pop open behind the wall) and some wood stain. I also used some paint and cable ties, which I already had. I chose the 2x3 instead of a 1x2 so that I wouldnt have extra holes in the wall from the gate screws going through the board.

I cut the board into two 36" in pieces. Painted one to match my wall and stained to other to match the bannister. I used the template to put the gate hinges on the wall board. Then I drilled the holes for the bolts. I put the board to the wall where I wanted it and drilled through again to make the holes for the anchors. I took the board away to make the holes in the wall larger to fit the anchors. I put the bolts and anchors on and bolted it to the wall. I put the other board up to the banister and marked where I wanted the ties to go. Then I drilled holes through the board so that the ties could go through the board and tied it to the bannister. Then I put the gate onto the wall brackets and lined it up to install the latch brackets and that was it.